Application Finder Alternatives

Application Finder is described as 'The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Application Finder for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, iPhone and BSD apps. The best Application Finder alternative is Alfred, which is free. Other great apps like Application Finder are Keypirinha, Raycast, Ulauncher and Fluent Search.

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  1. xfdashboard icon
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    xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard like interface for use with the Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run to any keyboard shortcut and when executed provides an overview of applications...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Xstarter icon
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    Terminal-based application launcher for Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Salmon icon
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    Salmon - Spotlight for Finder. Powerful search tool for files and folders with support for multiple selection. Powerful @modifiers to filter and sort.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Spotlight
     
  5. iBar icon
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    iBar is like Spotlight but for the web — jump to any page in your browser history in a couple of keystrokes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
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    Launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway.

    55 wofi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Finda icon
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    Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
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